Grain carrier



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IN. LolsELLE GRAIN CARRIER 13 Sheets-Sheet 2 I Filed June 16. 1924 N.LOISELLE GRAIN CARRIER Oct. 6', 1925- 3 sheets-Sheet a Filed June 16.1924 EELLE.

Patented Oct. 6, 1925.

PATENT oFFicE.

NAPOLEON LOISELLE, OF SOUTH FORK, SASKATCHEWAN, CANADA.

GRAIN CARRIER.

Application filed .Tune 16, 1924. Serial No. 720,399.

To all whom t may concern: Y

Be it known that I, NAPOLEON L'oIsEL-LE, a subject of the King of GreatBritain., and resident of South Fork, in the Province of Saskatchewan,Dominion of Canada, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inGrain ICarriers, of which the following is a specification. y

This invention relates to improvements in grain carriers, for use onmowing and binding machines, and is an improvement on the grain carriercovered by my Canadian Patent No. 209,678, issued March 22nd, 19.21, andthe objects of the invention are to facilitate collecting the desirednumber of sheaves to form a shock and dumping the same at the placewhere the shock is to be set up, to permit of the carrier being dumpedby the driver of the machine, to properly strengthen the carrier, andgenerally to adapt 1t to better perform the functions required of it.

With the above and other objects in View the invention consistsessentially of theimproved construction hereinafter described and setforth in the following specification and accompanying drawings formingpart of the same.

In the drawings;

Figure 1 is an end ele-fy e'. on of a mowing and binding machine,showing the improved carrier mounted thereon.

Figure 2 is a plan view of the same.

Figure 3 is a perspective of the carrier.

Figure 4 is a section taken on the line 4-4 of Figure 2.

Figure 5 is an end elevation of the carrier.

Figure 6 is a section on line 6 6 of Figure 4.

Figure Figure 2.

Figure 8 is a section on line 8--8 of Figure 7.

Like characters of reference refer to like parts in the several iigures.

Referring to the drawings, A represents a mower and binder of any usualdescription, and B the improved grain carrier attached to the same andstubbleward of the machine.

The grain carrier underlies the deck 10 of the binder and consists of arectangular receptacle open at one end and comprising a side wall 11,one end wall 12, an opposite wall 13 which is angularly disposed, thesaid walls being supported from a frame 14. The

is a section on the line 7 7 of bottom of the receptacle comprises apair of u adjacent to the wall 12, is provided with a x rod 18 whichextends towards the mower and binder and is rigidly connected thereto.The inverted U-shaped member 16 is braced by a diagonal rod 19 and fromthis U-shaped member chains 2O extend which are connected to transversebars 21 engaging with the upper face of the two portions of the bottom15.

The doors 15 are pivoted at 15a as illustrated more particularly inFigures 6, 7 and 8, and are also designed and provided with means sothat when swung downwardly in vertical open position, they can be movedupwardly out of the way, this being accomplished by means of a casing 7embedded in the doors and pivotally connected to them at 15b, the wholebeing supported by means of supporting brackets 8 of wire or suitableflexible metal bent over at their upper ends to engage with the sides ofthe carrier and bent at right angles at their lower ends at 9 to formthe supporting means for the doors 15. These supporting bracket membersalso perform the functions of tracks in combination with rollers 30 and31 carried by the doors on each side of their pivotal point 15, so thatas above mentioned, when the doors are swung downwardly, vertically inopen position as shown in dotted lines in Figure 6, they are adapted bymeans of said rollers to be moved upwardly along the supporting bracketmembers 8 acting as tracks, also shown in Figure 6, and to be retainedin this position'by means of chains 2O on the meml ber 16. i

On the under face of the two portions of the bottom 15 rods 22 extendand these rods project beyond one edge of the frame 14 and are connectedby a chain 23 to the crank arm 24 of a crank lever 25, the other arm 26of which is connected toa lever 27 designed to be actuated by a handlever 28 located at a point adjacent to the driver seat 29. When CTL thedesired number of sheaves have been delivered from the binder deck intothe receptacle B to form a shock the driver actuates the lever 28,thereby turning' the crank lever 27 and crank lever 25 allowing the twoportions of the bottom to open under gravity and the sheaves collectedin the receptacle are thus dumped at the place in which they are to beset up as a shock. l/Vhen the sheaves have been dumped the driveractuates the lever 28 which through the crank levers 27 and 25 closesthe two portions l5 of the bottom and the process of collectingsheavesis continued until the desired number has been collected, whereupon thecollector B is dumped in the manner already described.

lli-om this description it will be seen that l have invented a graincollector which can be advantageously utilized on mowing and bindingmachines and on which the desired number of sheaves may be collected anddumped in a place in which a shock is to be set up.

As many changes could be made in the above construction, and manyapparently widely different embodiments of my invention, within thescope oi' the claims, constructed without departing from the spirit orscope thereof, it is intended that all matter contained in theaccompanying specifiopen, a bottom formed in two pivotally mountedportions, a crank lever, a chain .extending from the crank lever to thesaid portions, and means for operating the cranl member. Y

2. A grain carrier comprisingl a receptacle, formed with a side wall, anopposite'inclined side wall and an end wall, the other end being` open,a bottom formed in two portions, supporting brackets adapted to engagewith the side walls above said portions, means in said portions forpivotallymounting them in 'said brackets, rollers in said portionsmounted to travel on .the supporting brackets when the portions areswung into an open position, an inverted U-shaped member at the open endof the carrier, means for moving the portions of the bottom about theirpivotal means to open position and means forl retaining the bottomportions of the carrier in a raised position when moved upwardly intothe carrier.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand.

NAPOLEON LOISELLE.

